Elizabeth Joseph

Elizabeth Joseph is a freelance writer and columnist writing about menopause and midlife. She is also a classic, pro-age model and a midlife influencer known as The Menopause Guinea Pig on Instagram.

Her midlife reinvention was prompted by rage. A rage that perimenopause was such a taboo subject when she stumbled into it in her forties, that she initially thought she had an auto-immune disease and early dementia. She no longer felt like herself and, as few women were speaking openly about their experiences at that time, she thought it was just her struggling in this way.

Determined that no other woman should enter this stage in life, surrounded by a deafening wall of silence, she became a menopause guinea pig – trying out all manner of natural approaches and products available out there and some that were truly ‘out there’. From womb massage to cacao ceremonies through cold water swimming and numerous supplements via mouth taping, tapping, turmeric and Tabasco not to mention period pants and fart pants she has tried them all.

Elizabeth details her exploits in her column in Platinum magazine, looking at ways to tackle symptoms such as hot flushes, night sweats, itchy skin, epic wind, disrupted sleep, mood swings, lack of joy, muscle pain, aching joints, irregular periods, brain fog, skin issues and more epic wind.